The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-08-06
Railroad Notes.

The end of track of the Manitoba road
is now 325 miles west of Mlnot, and only
about $50 miles east of Helena.
! The Northern Pacific is contemplating
d reduction of live stock rates from wes-
tern points to Minneapolis transfer of So
to $50 per car load.
The Northern Pacific will locate repair
shops at jamestown, Dakota, and increase
the capacity of the round house at that
place from seventeen to thirty stalls.
The Northern Pacific has made rate
OF $1.7O per hundred pounds on mixed
car lots of fresh vegetables and fruits be.
tween St. Paul and Helena and common
points.
A monument is to be erected over the
grave of Frank Jones, who was killed in
the railroad accident at Garrison last WILL
ter. The railroad engineers have SUBJ
scribed an amount sufficient for that pur-
pose.
The secretary Of the interior has ac-
cepted the articles of incorporation of
the Missoula and Bitter Root railroad, in
corporated under the laws of Montana,
and of the Salt Lake Valley & Eastern
railroad, incorporated under the laws of
Utah.
The Northern Pacific announces
special rate to Garrison of one fare for the
round trip to those who wish to attend the
Butte races next week. The tickets will
be placed on sale on the 9th and continue
on sale until the 18th. They will be
good to return on or before the 14th.
1t is reported that the Oregon Railway
& Navigation company have been granted
the right of way by executive order of
President Cleveland through the CGur
d'Alene Indian reservation for the exten-
sion of the Washington & Idaho railway
from Pennington along the South Fork
of the Ceur 'dAlene river, and work On
the same will be begun at once.
The Northern Pacific announces a new
tariff of 40 cents per hundred on barley,
when shipped in Car loads of 10000
pounds, from all points in Washington
territory on the N. P. main line or
east of the Cascade mountains,
to St. Paul, Minneapolis, Minnesota Trans
fer, Duluth, Superior and West Superior.
From points west of the Cascades to the
same terminals the rate is SO cents per
hundred pounds.
The ship A. G. Ropes sailed from Yo-
kahama on July 26, with $4,000 packa-
ges Of tea consigned to the Northern Pa
:iic at Tacoma. This is the largest sim
gle cargo which ever left Yokohama and
makes about 4,250,00O pounds of tea.
This quantity is four -fifths as much as all
he tea handled by the Canadian Pacific
asst year and more than came over the
Northern Pacific the whole of last season.
rbe cargo will make about 175 car loads,
md is shipped to St. Paul, Chicago, New
York and Canadian cities, very large
quantity being for the p H. Kelly Mer-
:antile company at St. Paul.
Independent: Central and Northern
Wyoming papers, as well as those in the
Black Hills, announce with much conf
lence that the Burlington s. Missouri
oad has force of surveyors in the field
unnlng a line from the Missouri river
dong the Black Hills and thence north
vest through Wyoming in the direction
# the National Park. The reports state
he surveyors have nothing to say as to
Who they are working for, but their bag
rage and outfit are marked b. & NJ. It
$ barely possible that the reports may be
o far corrupted as to distort c. s. w.,
which would mean the Northwestern.
'ow working in Wyoming, into the other
initials.